Watt (Houston Texans, 2011, pick 11)At age 28, Watt is already one of the NBA Live Coins best defenders in NFL history.Despite missing 13 games in 2016, he still leads all 2011 draftees — a loaded draft class which includes Von Miller, Justin Houston, Ryan Kerrigan, and Robert Quinn, among others — with 76 career sacks. Watt, along with Reggie White, is just one of two players in NFL history to register at least 15 sacks in three of their first five NFL seasons.
He’s also been one of the more decorated players in the league, earning at Madden NFL 18 Coins Defensive Player of the Year honors three times throughout his six-year career.Watt joined a Texans team, which had never made a playoff appearance in its nine years of existence prior to his selection, and turned Houston into a perennial playoff contender. One of Watt’s more memorable plays came in the form of a pick-six in the Texans’ first playoff appearance.
Since Watt was picked, the Texans have made four playoff appearances and won three playoff games in six years, despite the best quarterback in franchise history being best remembered as the guy who set an NFL record for most consecutive games with a pick-six.No other player in the NFL has changed a team quite like Watt has changed the Texans, which is what separates him from the rest of the pack here.
Houston, despite still not having found its franchise quarterback, went from
relative obscurity to perennial playoff contender — all because the team hit on
the Watt selection in 2011.Round 2: Rob Gronkowski (New England Patriots, 2010,
pick 42)Already one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history, Gronk has totaled
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